Fish Gate by Michael Graham (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General wear to boards with toning. Pages tanned with some spotting. DJ has tears and loss to edges with toning.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). (1943) 1943 2nd impression. Small 8vo (136 x 209mm). Pp196. B/w photographs, illustrations by E. D. Varley, end-paper charts. Blue boards, spine title in gilt. Boards faded and slightly bumped, slight browning but a good copy in used dust-wrapper. A study of British commercial fishing during the Second World War. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Bound in pale blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; map endpapers. Faded on the spine, and faint offsettig of the title on upper board of the once present dust jacket, and heavy erasure of price or name at top of half-title page has removed a small amount of paper. Otherwise internally clean, endpapers sound, unmarked and reasonably tightly bound. A book about the fishery in the North Sea in the early 1940s, including fishing and processing herring for export. 196 pages including bibliography and index, plus 16 B&W plates from photographs plus line drawings in the text. This second printing the same year as the first.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.196 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Hardback. Signature (dated 1943) to verso of ffep. Nr. fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. A fascinating account of the state of the fishing industry, the reasons for its decline in the years before the Second World War, and the opportunities for turning the industry around after the War.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print (first published same year). Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 196pp. B/w photographs, diagrams and maps, b/w map endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small ink line to title page, few marks to page edges. (57/6).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pp.196, illustrated with 16 plates and with line drawings in the text. Endpaper charts. blue cloth with some fading at bottom and spine edges and spinethree lines of adhesive tape residue across back and front and just onto the front pastedown. Otherwise a very good clean and tight copy in a very good protected dustjacket with browning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher - Methuen, London, 1943. 1st ed. 1st printing. VERY SCARCE. With 8 leaves of b/w plates and 13 line drawings by E.D. Varley. Maps on endpapers. Good condition, blue grey cloth boards with areas of sunning, sunned spine with dulled gilt lettering, mark to back board, corners bumped, spine ends crushed. Forward lean. From the library of Prof. John C. Smyth (1924-2005) with his signature to the half title page dated July 1956. Interior very good.